Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Gempylidae > Promethichthys > Promethichthys prometheus

Promethichthys prometheus (purple snake mackerel; Snake mackerel; Single-line gemfish; Sarpon; Roudi Escolar; Roudi; Rabbit-fish; Rabbitfish; Rabbit fish; Promethean escolar; Night serpent; Conejo; Bermuda catfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Promethichthys prometheus, the Roudi escolar, is a species of snake mackerel native to the warm temperate and tropical waters of all the oceans where it occurs at depths of from 80 to 800 metres (260 to 2,620 ft) (mostly between 300 to 400 metres (980 to 1,310 ft)). This species grows to a length of 100 centimetres (39 in) SL though most do not exceed 40 centimetres (16 in) SL. It is important to local peoples as a food fish and is popular as a game fish though it has been reported to carry the ciguatera toxin. It is also utilized as bait. This species is the only known member of its genus.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Predators

Alepisaurus ferox (Wolffish)[2]
Ruvettus pretiosus (Castor oil fish)[3]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3DIET OF THE OILFISH Ruvettus pretiosus (PERCIFORMES: GEMPYLIDAE) IN THE SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL ARCHIPELAGO, BRAZIL, Danielle de Lima Viana, Mariana Travassos Tolotti, Mariana Porto, Rodolfo Jorge Vale de Araújo, Teodoro Vaske Júnior and Fabio Hissa Vieira Hazin, BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF OCEANOGRAPHY, 60(2):181-188, 2012
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0